SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING ALL STUDENTS FOR THEIR FUTURES SE 256 TH STREET, KENT, WA | Tips & Tricks: Bulk Upload of Student Supports and Accommodations KSD Assessment Office From SBA Training Part II (week of February 2 nd )

SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING ALL STUDENTS FOR THEIR FUTURES SE 256 TH STREET, KENT, WA | BENEFITS OF BULK UPLOADING STUDENT DESIGNATED SUPPORTS 1.You have a record of your students’ preferred accommodations 2.You will lose this year’s work on assigning students’ settings if you don’t. TIDE automatically resets all students’ designated support/ accommodation settings to default values after the test year is complete. 3.You can use part of your file next year to load many of your students’ designated supports/accommodations settings (if those settings remain the same next year).

SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING ALL STUDENTS FOR THEIR FUTURES SE 256 TH STREET, KENT, WA | STEP 1 SAVE A LIST OF YOUR STUDENTS’ SSIDS AND IMPORTANT IDENTIFYING DATA FROM STUDENT INFORMATION TAB Choose your school & Click the search button. Select “Export” and then “Export all to Excel.”

SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING ALL STUDENTS FOR THEIR FUTURES SE 256 TH STREET, KENT, WA | STEP 1 (CONTINUED) SAVE A LIST OF YOUR STUDENTS’ SSIDS AND IMPORTANT IDENTIFYING DATA FROM STUDENT INFORMATION TAB. Open the Excel File downloaded from the previous slide and select the columns that help you identify your students (in this case it’s first name, last name and grade). Drop some columns that aren’t needed to identify your students and rearrange SSID to the far right Save this file on your desktop. (We’ll come back to it later.)

SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING ALL STUDENTS FOR THEIR FUTURES SE 256 TH STREET, KENT, WA | STEP 2 NEXT, GO TO UPLOAD STUDENT SETTINGS TAB, DOWNLOAD EXCEL TEMPLATE AND INSERT STUDENT IDENTIFYING COLUMNS WITH STUDENTS’ SSID. Insert Identifying columns into the Excel Template (above). Now, there is no need to type in SSIDs and you have all identifying student information. Columns inserted!

SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING ALL STUDENTS FOR THEIR FUTURES SE 256 TH STREET, KENT, WA | STEP 3 ASSIGN SUPPORTS/ACCOMMODATIONS Understand levels of support: see bottom left tab “values.” Better definitions can be found on “Accommodations Template” on our webpage. webpage

SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING ALL STUDENTS FOR THEIR FUTURES SE 256 TH STREET, KENT, WA | STEP 4 ASSIGN SUPPORTS/ACCOMMODATIONS Choose the level of support/accommodation for selected students In this example, we are assigning different print sizes to Michael and Suzy for the ELA-Performance Task. The list of supports/accommodations stretches far to the right. Many more supports/accommodations to the right After you’re finished assigning all supports/accommodations, delete all student identifying columns except the SSID Save this file. It is now ready for uploading into TIDE

SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING ALL STUDENTS FOR THEIR FUTURES SE 256 TH STREET, KENT, WA | STEP 5 UPLOAD STUDENT SETTINGS FILE Browse for the file you just saved in the previous slide, then click “Upload File” The Upload Process takes you through the following steps: 1)Upload 2)Preview 3)Validate 4)Confirmation …With a successful confirmation, you’re done!

SUCCESSFULLY PREPARING ALL STUDENTS FOR THEIR FUTURES SE 256 TH STREET, KENT, WA | Questions and Comments Thank You